Professional cleaning in Westminster

In 2021, 43.3 per cent of Westminster households were private tenants, a bigger group than social tenants (28.3 per cent) or owners (27.4 per cent). From 24 November 2025 the council has asked for a selective licence on nearly all private lets other than HMOs in 15 of its 18 wards. The exceptions are Pimlico South, St James’s and Vincent Square, and the designations expire on 23 November 2030.

A second scheme deals with sharers. Additional HMO licensing reaches every ward, for any home where at least three people from more than one household share, flats in purpose-built blocks included. Its renewal took effect on 31 August 2026 and lasts until 30 August 2031.

Licensed or not, the outgoing tenant hands the flat back against the inventory. Our end of tenancy cleaning goes by bedroom count: a studio starts at £156 and a two-bedroom flat at £243. Add £31 for a single oven, or £62 when it is a double or a 90cm range. If a shared flat’s rooms fit none of those sizes, we work out the price room by room when you call.

Thames Water supplies all of Westminster, and the two supply zones checked for this page both tested hard in 2025, inside its 200 to 300 mg/l band. SW1V 2HB, in Pimlico North, draws from the Parliament zone: samples between 240 and 290 mg/l, averaging 264. W1D 3QF in Soho draws from the Bloomsbury zone, between 259 and 276, averaging 270. Hardness like that leaves white marks on chrome taps, plugholes and shower glass within days of the last wipe. A regular visit lifts it while it is still soft. Months of crust needs a deep clean instead, from £186 (two cleaners, three hours, kit included).

Cavendish Square was laid out in 1717, and the Harley Street conservation area, which runs from Oxford Street up to Marylebone Road, grew from it. At its Georgian heart are narrow terraced town houses mixed with Victorian and Edwardian mansion flats, and Marylebone High Street has mansion blocks and flats from the late Victorian and Edwardian years above its shops. On the far side of Marylebone Road, the four-storey Georgian terraces of Dorset Square, in stock brick and stucco, stand behind lightwells and area railings.

With a basement flat behind railings, the cleaner carries the vacuum and buckets down the area steps. Take on the whole town house above it and that is four floors of stairs.

Private renters made up 59.7 per cent of Marylebone ward’s households at the last census, the highest share of the ten areas covered here, and the Portman family still holds most of the land below Dorset Street, Montagu Place and Bryanston Place. Tenancies turn over often in a ward like that. A move-out by professional cleaners in a two-bedroom mansion flat starts at £243, and fitted carpets done during that visit are £29 a bedroom and £36 the living room.

Belgravia was laid out from the 1820s on the Grosvenor Estate by Thomas Cubitt and Thomas Cundy, and homes still fill most of it. The grand streets are long stucco terraces kept to one even height; the side streets are shorter, in brick or half stucco; mews run behind; and around Bloomfield Terrace there are small late Georgian houses and villas.

Houses make up a much larger share here. In Knightsbridge & Belgravia ward, 20.0 per cent of households are in terraced houses, nearly treble the city’s 7.2 per cent, and 35.7 per cent own their home. A terrace over several floors means stairs and landings, which carpet cleaning prices one by one: £41 per flight, £9 per landing and £36 per bedroom. Professional cleaners wheel portable hot water extraction machines from room to room. Carpets then need a few hours to dry, and an open window or the heating on shortens that.

Eaton Square, Wilton Crescent and Belgrave Square fall in sub-zone A2. On weekdays its meters and single yellow lines are enforced until 6.30pm, but on a Saturday they switch off at 1.30pm, so a Saturday start after 1.30pm needs no meter at all.

Paddington station’s neighbouring streets are inside the Bayswater conservation area, which was laid out from 1827 within Bayswater Road, Edgware Road and Praed Street and centres on Sussex Gardens and Westbourne Terrace. Most of it is stucco terraced houses with mews, turning commercial by the station. The Hyde Park Estate, around Hyde Park Square and owned mainly by the Church Commissioners, was damaged by wartime bombs and partly rebuilt with dense blocks of flats over underground car parks, among the Victorian villas.

Hyde Park ward had 54.8 per cent of its households renting from a private landlord in 2021, and the City Plan aims for at least 1,000 new homes in the Paddington Opportunity Area. Letting on that scale means the kitchen gets inspected at every check-out. Added to a move-out, an oven clean is £31 for a single oven, or from £77 booked by itself; the cleaner soaks the racks and trays in a tub and does the cavity by hand, all in your kitchen.

Where the professional cleaners park depends on the street. Sub-zone B5 (the station, Paddington Basin and Westbourne Terrace) controls residents’ bays from 8.30am until 8.30pm daily; Praed Street (B7) and the Hyde Park Square streets (F1) control them 24 hours.

Maida Vale’s first streets followed the Grand Union and Regent’s canals. The southern part, up to Sutherland Avenue, had been built by the 1860s, brick and stucco with large crescents finished in stucco. The northern half, mostly complete by 1900, is red stock brick, and Elgin Avenue has some of the early mansion blocks. In Maida Vale ward, flats house 95.7 per cent of households; purpose-built blocks take 74.7 per cent and converted or shared houses 20.0 per cent.

North Maida Vale is zone C, the least expensive Westminster zone. Its paid bays, single yellow lines and residents’ bays are controlled on weekdays only, 8.30am to 6.30pm, and Saturday and Sunday are uncontrolled. That suits a domestic cleaner on a Saturday rota at £24 an hour fortnightly. The southern streets are zone B, with hours of their own.

A mansion flat on one floor suits regular professional cleaning well: at least 3 hours a visit, and we aim to keep sending the same cleaner each time you book.

Covent Garden’s conservation area has the Piazza at its middle, a 1630s layout by Inigo Jones. To the south, buildings sit on long, narrow medieval plots with alleyways between them; to the north, larger Victorian warehouses and commercial buildings take over. In the two census areas around the Piazza and the Strand, flats house 98.5 per cent of households: 81.8 per cent in purpose-built blocks and 8.4 per cent inside commercial buildings.

A flat in a commercial building may share its entrance with offices or shops, so tell the cleaner how to get through. Private renting stands at 47.3 per cent, yet St James’s ward, which takes in Covent Garden, is outside selective licensing, one of only three Westminster wards that are. A landlord letting to a single household needs no selective licence; shared flats still come under HMO licensing.

For a clean before guests come or after weeks away, a one-off clean carries no contract, is charged by the hour and starts at £186. Professional cleaning of that kind can be booked any day. Covent Garden is in parking zone G, controlled from 8.30am until 6.30pm, Monday to Saturday.